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Space Buses Coming Faster And Cheaper

A version of this article appears in the August 4 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
For additive manufacturing, Lockheed Martin Space Systems started with small parts, mainly brackets used to support sensors and other instruments inside spacecraft.
Within the next three years, however, the company expects more than half of its A2100 satellite bus to be built through additive manufacturing, a revolutionary fabrication process that promises drastically reduced hardware ...

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